Caveman
Robot News
By Jason Robert Bell
2006
Adventures of Caveman Robot: The Musical, opened April 13th, 2006, was the preformaces were loved by everyone expect snobby theater crits.
The Brick
575 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg
L to Lorimer, G to Metropolitan. Written and Directed by Jeff Lewonczyk, based on the Caveman Robot characters, stories, and comics of Jason Robert Bell, Britton Walters, Joe Infurnari, and Shoshanna Weinberger.
Book by Jeff Lewonczyk with Jason Robert Bell, Music by Debby Schwartz , Lyrics by Debby Schwartz and Jeff Lewonczyk
2005
Check it out at our booth #4917at the 2005 San Diego Comic Con! And meet Caveman Robot!
CAVEMAN ROBOT COMICS! -
http://www.cavemanrobot.com
Caveman Robot Chapter One- Welcome to Monumenta - with stunning full-color artwork
masterfully done by Joe Infurnari story by Britton Walters, Jason Robert Bell
with Joe Infurnari. Plus a one pager by none other than Scott Shaw! 32 pages
only $2.50 And a double book OOLAR! Stories from the Wild World of CAVEMAN ROBOT and TETRAGRAMMATRON
ONE WITH TWO! 44 pages of black and white madness by Britton Walters, Jason
Robert Bell, Shoshanna Weinberger, Luc Thomas, Chris Wisnias and Greg Cook only
$1.50-
Caveman Robot - Time of the Mammouth
a new stop-motion animated short by Jonathan Latiano
based on a story by Jason Robert Bell and Jonathan Latiano
to be premiered at our booth at the 2005 San Diego Comic Con!
with charaters created by Jason Robert Bell and Shoshanna Weinberger (Caveman
Robot) & Britton Walters (Col. Threeheadedspacepony)
2004
The 96 page Caveman Robot Graphic Novel- by Britton
Walters, Jason Robert Bell, Shoshanna Weinberger, and Joe Infurnari. It will
be hot of the presses in JULY 2004!- Will have a table at the San Diego Comic
Con in July. Here is the great wrap around cover by Joe! Email orders today
only four dollars US plus 2 dollars for shipping!
2003
We are currently working on a new Caveman Robot Graphic Novel- by Britton Walters,
Jason Robert Bell, Shoshanna Weinberger, and Joe Infurnari. This comic is being
funded by the film/tv option money that we recieved from Epiphany pictures,
We all have been hard at work on new stories. Check
out Joe's preview pages!
We here a tetragrammatron have signed an option with Epiphany
Pictures, so it is only a matter of time before Caveman Robot is finds his
rightfully place on the small or big silver screen.
My performance group “Wadlow” will be preformaning at The
Brick in Williamsburg the first Sunday of Spet. 2003
Both Britton Walters and Joe Infurnari have been working on the new Caveman
Robot Book, that hopefully will be coming out early next year.
2002
There is a small Caveman Robot cameo in Britton Walter’s Huzzah mini-comic.
Dan Halperin, a movie producer was in Chicago and saw the Caveman Robot Figure
that was still on display in Quimby’s Comic Shop. He inquired about it
and they gave him my name. He found the Website and emailed me. We began talking
about the character and various ideas about how it could be brought to the screen.
I mailed out a collection of comics and various trappings of Caveman Robot to
Dan. Dan’s company is Epiphany Pictures – http://www.epiphanypicturesinc.com
Joe and I began working on more of the computer images; I purchased a number
of additions to the Poser program in order for Joe and myself to continue to
develop Caveman Robot and the related characters.
I began writing down a “story treatment “ that could be used later
for a full-fledged script. Joe has added feedback to this treatment and developed
images based on it.
Britton Walters submitted seven short “episode” storylines for possible
new Caveman Robot comics that will be posted on the website. All of the “episodes”
are original content by Britton, with the expectation of “the Lobster
Ape” which was created by me.
Joe with editorial feedback from me, has been working on a new improved website.
Informed Shoshanna of the interest from Dan and we discussed our co-creator
status. At Dan's suggestion, I filled the first drawing and comic of Caveman
Robot with the U.S. Copyright office. The copyright is in both our names.
I have been requesting various musicians that I am friends with to create Caveman
Robot Songs, the idea since I could use a collected CD of the songs to promote
the character. So far, I have one recorded song “Create New Monsters”
by Phil Williams and Peter Thompson, the chorus and title of the song- “Create
New Monsters” was written by me. In addition, I have lyrics for another
song written by Debby Schwartz.
I have been working with a professional costume maker, Juliann Elizabeth Kroboth,
to create an actual Caveman Robot Costume for promotional actions and a short
live action film experiment. My friend Kory Smith has been working with us as
the model for the costume. Kory is the primary actor with the costume. Kory
and I have discussed the idea, of him performing in Rock venues, doing Drumming
as Caveman Robot. At present, the costume is 60% done.
The Live action film, will be a parody of those “In Search Of… “ Films instead of Bigfoot it will be Caveman Robot.
I have been working on another short film “promotional piece” involving
an altered wind up toy that I have transformed into Caveman Robot. This short
will involve the walking toy chroma-keyed onto live footage of city streets
wit people screaming and running way.
2000 - 2001
Registered the web domain http://www.cavemanrobot.com- this page has a collection
of images and text from myself and others of Caveman Robot.
The majority of drawing that I did at Yale were used in a 52 foot long by 12
foot tall Collage/drawings entitled Everything, Everyone, Everywhere, Forever.
This piece along with three other large-scale collage/ drawings was exhibit
in a one-person show at the Norfolk Summer School of Art in Norfolk, CT. The
other works were entitled The Emerald Tablet, The Birth of a World, and The
Tree of Life. Caveman Robot was one of the main themes of this works, along
with the other characters I developed.
After the events of September 11th, 2001, I offered Custom made- 20” Caveman
Robot Dolls for sale, with all profits going to World Trade Center Charities.
I sold three of these Dolls under this offer; the purchasers were Sam Messer,
Peter Staley, and Susie Reiss. The remaining dolls are still for sale on my
website but no longer as a charitable offer. One of the extra Dolls was on display
at the Bellwether Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Becky Smith the director of the gallery
purchased this doll from me, as a gift to give on of her patrons. The dolls
are available for purchase, on my website the processing is done by Paypal.
Began collaborating with Joe Infurnari on computer renders of Caveman Robot,
using the programs Poser and Bryce. Joe was able to create a number of elements
and images involving the character. We had spoke about creating a series of
High Resolution Computer Generated renders of Caveman Robot in dramatic situations
as a way to “pitch” the character for Film and television. This
project was halted because I had two back-to-back art exhibits. (See the detailed
attachment by Joe of his work up to date)
Began selling Caveman Robot products on Cafepress.com- a digital web based output
company that allows users to upload images onto prefabricated products and then
sell them on there website.
I have purchased a number of these shirts and sent them to friends as gifts.
In addition, I have actually sold a few from the site.
1999
While at the Yale School of Art, for the Master in Fine Art program, I did a
number of paintings, drawings, and sculptures of Caveman Robot. Also continued
to developed a number of other characters that Caveman Robot interacts with –Yaldabaotha, Lucifer Morningstar, Lilith Queen of Babylon, Tar-Adom Zadmon,
Dr. Zarathustra Plunder, The Hermit, "Eve", The Slumberjack, Gabriel
the Hand of God, Behemoth, Marduke, The Yetisyns, Apollo the Last Human, The
Orpheus Terminals. The narrative that I created for the characters has been
in a constant state of development to the present. Some of the character’s
names have been changed so that they are no longer public domain names- Lucifer
Morningstar is now Aeon, Lilith is now Alba, Adam is now Enok.2000
Continued my studies at the Yale School of Art and used Caveman Robot as a subject
in a number of large-scale drawings.
Also started theTETRAGRAMATRON archive website, (http://www.tetragrammatron.com)
which has a Caveman Robot section.
1998
Published Monumental Comics Presents: Caveman Robot #3- included contributions
from John Bell, Greg Cook, Jenni Grover, Meri Grover, K. Thor Jensen, Missy
Kuilk, Ans Purins, Mike McCarty, John Mitchell, David Servoss, Jeremy Smith,
Peter Staley, Tom Tiegler, Heather Walters, Tim Ward, David Wells, Scott Williams,
Doug Young, Shoshanna Weinberger, Britton Walters, Rob Syers, Scott Wolniak
and myself. All of the contributors were mailed a request for submissions entitled “Take the Caveman Robot Challenge” – (Released in edition
of 100) Sold on consignment in Chicago and New York.
I published a Tetragrammaton Weekly, a “mini-zine” mailer that had
an ongoing The Adventures of Caveman Robot feature- it was published for 32
weeks in editions of 35 each, (example copy enclosed)
1997
I did short Caveman Robot comic for Jenni Grover’s Buffalo Speedway #
5 magazine.
Continued to create small-altered toys of Caveman Robot
Published TETRAGRAMMATON #1- a collection of drawings and prints, one of which
was Caveman Robot- this was reviewed in the “zine catalog” Factsheet
Five, the drawing of Caveman Robot was mentioned in the review. (Released in
edition of 100)
Published Monumental Comics Presents: Caveman Robot #2- included contributions
from Shoshanna Weinberger, Britton Walters, Rob Syers, Adam Novy, Scott Wolniak
and myself. The main story “If This Me Not Me” was developed by
Rob Syers and Britton Walters from my concepts, with framing pages by myself
which featured The Slumberjack. Britton developed a number of characters in
this comic- Caveman Robot’s girlfriend, Megan, and the “Nefarious
Nine” including Ape Lincoln, Half Head, Dizzy Man, Superpants, The Seat
Stealer, The Copier, Simon De Dire, and The Human Postcard. Col. Rolf Threeheadedspacepony
(was a co-creation of Britton and Jason Robert Bell) (copy of cover enclosed)-
(Released in edition of 100) Sold on consignment in Chicago and New York.
Jeremy Smith created a one- of a kind ceramic Caveman Robot commemorative plate-,
which he gave me as a Christmas gift. An image of this plate on the website.
I did a 30”x 20” portrait in oil on canvas of Caveman Robot.
1996
I did a short Caveman Robot comic for Britton Walters’ MOO juice #15 magazine.
Published Monumental Comics Presents: Caveman Robot #1- included contributions
from Shoshanna Weinberger, Britton Walters, Rob Syers, Mike McCarty, John Mitchell,
Scott Wolniak and myself. Beside Caveman Robot, I created Yaldaobotha a recurring
character. Britton created Loser Pete Caveman Robot sometime sidekick. (Released
in edition of 100)- Sold on consignment in Chicago and New York.
Shared a booth at the Chicago Independent Comic Exhibition (I.C.E)- in which
Caveman Robot the caveman robot comic was exhibited along with a two and half
foot tall Caveman Robot sculpture display. This display was placed in Quimby’s
Comic Shop in Chicago and is still there to this day.
Altered a number of “action figures” purchased from toy outlet stores
to be gag Caveman Robot figures. These toys were repacked with comical text
mocking the language of such items. These toys were given as gifts and sold
in The Chicago Comics Shop and Quimby’s Comic Shop. I have a few of these
figures left.
Caveman Robot #1 was reviewed in The Lumpen Times magazine and the “zine
catalog” Factsheet Five.
1995
May 1995 – Chicago- Created the Caveman Robot over a phone conversation
with my friend Shoshanna Weinberger. She said that men were all “caveman
robot”- I told her what a great character that would make and quickly
did a drawing of the character-
The copyright
for the character is jointly held in both our names.
I did numerous drawings and studies of the character
I did a short three-page Caveman Robot comic for Greg Cook’s Oatmeal Journal
#4 anthology